The first table below looks at the demand for the Senior Tester role in IT jobs advertised for the City of London region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Senior Tester in their job title over the 3 months to 20 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Job Titles advertised for the City of London region.

Location
3 months to
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Senior Tester
Rank 310 307 298
Rank change year-on-year
-3 -9
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Tester 7 16 24
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the City of London 0.060% 0.122% 0.159%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.065% 0.131% 0.170%
Number of salaries quoted 7 15 24
Average salary £57,500 £50,000 £57,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+15.00% -13.04%
90% offered a salary of more than £43,000 £42,500 £40,000
10% offered a salary of more than £59,500 £50,000 £77,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £37,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+6.66% -
All Job Titles
City of London
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
10798 12218 14109
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the City of London 92.81% 93.08% 93.52%
Number of salaries quoted 9316 11108 12688
Average salary £52,500 £52,500 £55,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- -4.54%
90% offered a salary of more than £33,000 £32,500 £32,500
10% offered a salary of more than £75,000 £85,000 £80,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Senior Tester
London

Senior Tester
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Senior Tester across the City of London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

City of London Senior Tester Jobs Demand Trend

Senior Tester
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Senior Tester across the City of London region.

City of London Senior Tester Salary Trend

Senior Tester
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Senior Tester across the City of London region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013.

City of London Senior Tester Salary Histogram

Senior Tester
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the City of London region that cited Senior Tester in their job title mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled with Senior Tester in their job title.

1 9 (52.94%) LoadRunner
2 7 (41.18%) Automated Testing
3 6 (35.29%) QA
3 6 (35.29%) Selenium
3 6 (35.29%) Performance Testing
3 6 (35.29%) WebDriver
3 6 (35.29%) Finance
3 6 (35.29%) Java
3 6 (35.29%) E-Commerce
4 5 (29.41%) C#
4 5 (29.41%) SQL
4 5 (29.41%) Load Testing
5 4 (23.53%) QuickTest Pro
5 4 (23.53%) TDD
5 4 (23.53%) Test Automation
5 4 (23.53%) VBScript
5 4 (23.53%) Perl
5 4 (23.53%) Python
5 4 (23.53%) BDD
6 3 (17.65%) WatiN
6 3 (17.65%) Cucumber
6 3 (17.65%) Scrum
6 3 (17.65%) Middleware
6 3 (17.65%) Rational Robot
6 3 (17.65%) RDBMS
6 3 (17.65%) Social Media
6 3 (17.65%) WebLOAD
6 3 (17.65%) Ruby
7 2 (11.76%) Agile Software Development
7 2 (11.76%) Manual Testing

Senior Tester
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the City of London region that cited Senior Tester in their job title mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled with Senior Tester in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 3 (17.65%) Middleware
2 1 (5.882%) WebSphere
2 1 (5.882%) .NET
2 1 (5.882%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 1 (5.882%) Tuxedo
1 1 (5.882%) SharePoint
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.882%) TCP/IP
1 1 (5.882%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (17.65%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 9 (52.94%) LoadRunner
2 6 (35.29%) Selenium
2 6 (35.29%) WebDriver
3 4 (23.53%) QuickTest Pro
4 3 (17.65%) WebLOAD
4 3 (17.65%) Rational Robot
4 3 (17.65%) Cucumber
4 3 (17.65%) WatiN
5 2 (11.76%) Visual Studio
6 1 (5.882%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (5.882%) Bugzilla
6 1 (5.882%) Subversion
General
1 6 (35.29%) Finance
2 1 (5.882%) Banking
Miscellaneous
1 3 (17.65%) Social Media
2 1 (5.882%) SaaS
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.882%) UNIX
1 1 (5.882%) Windows
1 1 (5.882%) Linux
1 1 (5.882%) Android
1 1 (5.882%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (41.18%) Automated Testing
2 6 (35.29%) Performance Testing
2 6 (35.29%) E-Commerce
3 5 (29.41%) Load Testing
4 4 (23.53%) TDD
4 4 (23.53%) Test Automation
4 4 (23.53%) BDD
5 3 (17.65%) Scrum
6 2 (11.76%) Agile Software Development
6 2 (11.76%) Manual Testing
6 2 (11.76%) Test Scripting
6 2 (11.76%) Automation Testing
7 1 (5.882%) Continuous Integration
7 1 (5.882%) Vulnerability Assessment
7 1 (5.882%) Penetration Testing
7 1 (5.882%) System Testing
7 1 (5.882%) Non-Functional Testing
7 1 (5.882%) Configuration Management
7 1 (5.882%) Regression Testing
7 1 (5.882%) Test Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (35.29%) Java
2 5 (29.41%) C#
2 5 (29.41%) SQL
3 4 (23.53%) VBScript
3 4 (23.53%) Perl
3 4 (23.53%) Python
4 3 (17.65%) Ruby
5 1 (5.882%) Lua
5 1 (5.882%) Bash shell
5 1 (5.882%) JavaScript
5 1 (5.882%) VB
5 1 (5.882%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 2 (11.76%) ISEB
2 1 (5.882%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (35.29%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (5.882%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 2 (11.76%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.882%) Oracle
City, London
You will define the QA and test processes including building continuous integration processes (Hudson, Jenkins); an automated test framework (Selenium or similar) and develop test scripts within a...
Client Server
Salary: £45k to £55k + benefits
Posted: 14 May 2013